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Meowi 01-29-2011 08:15 PM

Your Genealogy
 
What is your ancestry? Do you have any interesting tales from way back when?

I'm although Australian, most of my ancestors came from the British Isles in the late 1800's. On my mothers fathers side, my came from Sicily and left during World War II.
There isn't much information about my fathers mother, but there are talks that she could be of Spanish/Welsh descent. There are other talks too, that my great-great-great grandfather was maori.

APerfectLie 01-29-2011 08:18 PM

All I know is that I am somehow related two presidents.

mylittledemon 01-29-2011 08:26 PM

I have no clue to be honest... but "Jones"? I'm sure to have one helluva Welsh-tree ;)

MissLadyLoki 01-29-2011 08:38 PM

Um, I'm Jewish and most people can't spell or pronounce my last name, but it's the same one as a singer's, but with the spelling changed slightly. As for genealogy, I just know they're from all over Europe so i'm just a mutt

Silver Springs 01-29-2011 08:42 PM

I know sweet feck all about my ancestry, owing to the fact that I have no relatives above parent/aunt/uncle age to ask anymore. I do know my Mother's Grandparents on her Mother's side were Irish, and her Grandparents on her Father's side were Scottish. And on my Father's side there's stray Chinese DNA. Rather odd combination really.

RickRobert 01-29-2011 08:43 PM

I'm mostly Welsh, I think my dad could have had some English grandparents and my great great granddad was Irish.

Meowi 01-29-2011 08:46 PM

Hey stranger! ^^^
How did you go with your exams?

RickRobert 01-29-2011 08:50 PM

Physics wasn't so bad, Chemistry was hell on earth and I seemed to be the only person who thought that so... woops :lol:

Hope to talk to you again someday soon :cool:

Meowi 01-29-2011 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RickRobert (Post 939444)
Physics wasn't so bad, Chemistry was hell on earth and I seemed to be the only person who thought that so... woops :lol:

Hope to talk to you again someday soon :cool:

Your never on MSN :p

estranged4life 01-29-2011 09:36 PM

Hmmm...
 
Irish/Scottish on my Mom's side of the family
Irish/Cherokee on my Dad's side

The Irish on Dad's side of the family came to America in the early 1800's. My Grandfather M.H. Johnson (His name is M.H. - the letters apparently have no meaning :shrug: ) was an Irish Catholic until he met and fell in love with a Cherokee, My Grandmother Malzie (I think her full first name was Malziria) Collins - and his family (from the story I heard) disowned him for marrying a non-Catholic Irish woman. So my family became Baptist (Ya know, Methodist's who can't read).

On my Mom's side, I did know...But with all the crap/lies I've heard I don't care to post what may be inaccurate.

CreepingDeath 01-29-2011 10:08 PM

Mother's side: Mostly English with one line of French. My maternal grandparents came to the U.S. in the 1950's from Wiltshire. You can follow my paternal grandparents line as far back as 1495 (mostly Wessex). England FTW! :cool:

Father's side: English/Danish

amberlemegan 01-29-2011 10:33 PM

On my dad's side my grandma's parents are from Italy. I don't know where though. I should ask my Great-Grandma since she lives 15 minutes away from me. I think I heard Sicily at one point.
My grandpa's parents on my dad's side are from Greece. That is all I know.
For my mom's side she's 100% Irish but I don't know when they came to America.
I should defiantly look into this.

Sweet I'm the first one who's Greek :D

Stew_Matthews 01-30-2011 05:23 AM

It’s interesting finding out where your ancestors lived and what they did. My brother spent time tracking down our parent’s family history. My father’s family can be traced back about 300 years and they all lived, in and around, what is now the village of Minster Lovell in Oxfordshire (UK). My mother was Italian and born in Venice. Her great grandparents (on her mother’s side) fled Russia at the time of the Revolution and settled in Switzerland and then Italy after the Second World War.

I was hoping that my brother would uncover some scandal or rogue in the family :Dbut sadly he hasn’t yet. Having said that, my wife’s Sicilian ancestors fill up a few paragraphs in Wikipedia from Chicago’s early years, so I guess that makes up for it.:laugh:

Meowi 01-30-2011 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by amberlemegan (Post 939462)
On my dad's side my grandma's parents are from Italy. I don't know where though. I should ask my Great-Grandma since she lives 15 minutes away from me. I think I heard Sicily at one point.
My grandpa's parents on my dad's side are from Greece. That is all I know.
For my mom's side she's 100% Irish but I don't know when they came to America.
I should defiantly look into this.

Sweet I'm the first one who's Greek :D

If you are from Sicily, most likely we are related.
Seriously.

GypsySorcerer 01-30-2011 09:00 AM

Mom's side - Italian. (Both her mother and father's families were from southern Italy, I think.)

Dad's side - German, English, Irish. My paternal grandfather is mostly German, with a little English. We've got the name traced back to the arrival of our German ancestors in Pennsylvania in the 1700s.


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